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Posted by Bernhard
Feb 24, 2020 at 05:06 PM

I would like to run some other DOS software through DosBox. Unfortunately, DosBox constantly runs with a high CPU load that drains my battery. I assume that it is caused by “busy waiting” of Dos software.

Did you find an acceptable config setting that balances CPU load and program execution?

Thanks for yout input!

JIM_CRONIN wrote:
>I still run PCO through DosBox,
>and send all files to a TXT file to be edited/printed in Word.
>Jim Cronin
>Seattle Insurance and Legal Investigations
>(206) 992-1555
>www.seattle-investigations.com
>

Posted by jaslar
Feb 24, 2020 at 09:27 PM

On an old Ubuntu box, I downloaded DOSBOX-X, then the program file for PCO (https://www.pcorner.com/). Then I unzipped the files, set up a new DOSBOX directory as c.

mount c /home/jlarue/Downloads/pco/

Then I went to the c drive (c:)

Typed pco, and I have PCoutline running in Linux!

There are some oddities. Movement by word is supposed to be Shift-left/right (this is using the F1 help key function). But it only works when I do the number key arrows. And some of the other choices don’t seem to work at all. Function keys are necessary for promotion and demotion. Bottom line: it’s ok. It would take a while of living in it to love it. And I would have to read the manual, I think, to grok it. Absent word count and printing, I’m not sure it’s a good use of my time. But today, I have CRIMPed.

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